I was fired from my first job out of college, and in retrospect that was a gift. It taught me that new jobs were easy to get (as a programmer in the late 00s) and took away my fear of job hunting, which otherwise would have been enormous. I watched so many programmer friends stay in miserable jobs when they had a plethora of options, because job hunting was too scary. Being fired early rescued me from that.
Would you still feel this way if you were, instead, a programmer in the mid 2020s? Or do you think the job market’s changed enough that said fears are now more reasonable?
Asking for… a friend… who is thinking of quitting a miserable software job, but is afraid of job hunting.
I was fired from my first job out of college, and in retrospect that was a gift. It taught me that new jobs were easy to get (as a programmer in the late 00s) and took away my fear of job hunting, which otherwise would have been enormous. I watched so many programmer friends stay in miserable jobs when they had a plethora of options, because job hunting was too scary. Being fired early rescued me from that.
Would you still feel this way if you were, instead, a programmer in the mid 2020s? Or do you think the job market’s changed enough that said fears are now more reasonable?
Asking for… a friend… who is thinking of quitting a miserable software job, but is afraid of job hunting.
I’ve been out of the loop for 8 years at this point, you shouldn’t trust my current take. Maybe some current programmers can answer?